Product Management

🔖 Contents on this page:

🔄 Product Planning and Roadmap Cycle
🎨 Product Management Deliverables:
📚Useful Resources

🔄 Product Planning and Roadmap Cycle

A robust planning process should follow a multi-step cycle that takes care of different time horizons.

A strong roadmap process is essential for several reasons:

Forces setting of strategic priorities and hard trade-offs
Enables capacity planning for staffing and infrastructure
Provides sense of reliability and predictability to key customers (and investors!)
Revenue impact planning for relevant key features

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Pitfall: Jumping directly from the grand long-term vision right into nitty-gritty sprint deliverables without fleshing out the middle layers first is a frequent mistake. It will lead to a growing disconnect between long-term planning and what the product team is working on.

🎨 Product Management Deliverables:

🌄Product Vision🗺️Roadmaps🎨UI Design👩🏻‍🔬Customer Research

📚Useful Resources

Silicon Valley Product Group

Marty Cagan's ongoing blog

Product Management Archives | Silicon Valley Product Group

svpg.com

Product Management Archives | Silicon Valley Product Group

Mind the Product

Mind the Product also organises regular meetups, conferences and runs a very active slack group. Its content covers all aspects of product management.

Mind the Product

Conferences, training, and content for the world's largest community of product managers, designers, and developers.

www.mindtheproduct.com

Lenny's Newsletter

By Lenny Rachitsky, former founder (Airbnb acqui-hire) & product lead at Airbnb. Covers multiple high level topics but also deep dives such as retention rates

Lenny's Newsletter

A weekly advice column about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that's stressing you out at the office

www.lennysnewsletter.com

Cagan: Inspired

A comprehensive guide to the practices of product management.

www.amazon.com

Moon: Different

How to build truly differentiated products in crowded markets.

www.amazon.com

Donoghue and Newell: Envision Product

A focused guide on how to get user experience right for startups

Envision Product: User Experience for Founders

Envision Product: User Experience for Founders - Kindle edition by Craig Newell, Karen Donoghue. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Envision Product: User Experience for Founders.

www.amazon.com

Envision Product: User Experience for Founders

Segall: Insanely Simple

Few companies have perfected the art of simplicity as Apple has. A view behind the scenes of Apple's product design and marketing processes.

www.amazon.com

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